What is apartheid?

(in South Africa) a policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race. Apartheid, in South Africa, a policy that governed relations between the white minority and nonwhite majority during the 20th century. Apartheid was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 until the early 1990s. Apartheid (“apartness” in the language of Afrikaans) was a system of legislation that upheld segregationist policies against non-white citizens of South Africa. Apartheid was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa from 1948 until the early 1990s. Apartheid definition is - racial segregation; specifically : a former policy of segregation and political and economic discrimination against non-European groups.